Janet Soskice, a former board member of the Faraday Institute, is Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus of Cambridge University and a Fellow Emeritus of Jesus College. She is currently the William K. Warren Distinguished Research Professor of Catholic Theology at Duke University Divinity School.
Janet was born in British Columbia, and studied at Cornell and Sheffield, prior to doing a doctorate in the philosophy of religion (religious language) at Oxford University. While the Gordon Milburn Junior Research Fellow and subsequently as a lecturer at Ripon College, Cuddesdon, she taught philosophy of religion, ethics and doctrine at Oxford University and philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London.
Prof. Soskice is a past-President of the Catholic Theological Association of Great Britain and of Society for the Study of Theology and, in 1997, was a McCarthy Visiting Professor at the Gregorian University in Rome. She is a past Board member of the international Catholic journal, Concilium, and is currently a member of the board of Modern Theology and New Blackfriars. Prof. Soskice has been actively involved with the Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, a Catholic house of study for women within the Cambridge Theological Federation, with Jewish-Christian relations, and a member of the English and Welsh Anglican/Roman Catholic Commission, amongst other commitments.
Janet Soskice is the author of Metaphor and Religious Language (O.U.P. 1984); The Kindness of God (O.U.P. 2007) and Naming God: addressing the divine in philosophy, theology and scripture (Cambridge U.P, 2024). Her account of a true story, Sisters of Sinai: How Two Lady Adventurers Discovered the Lost Gospels (Chatto, March 2009 and Knopf, summer 2009) was on many ‘best book of the year’ lists and Book of the Week on Radio 4
Janet edited (with Grant Gillett and K.W. Fulford), Medicine and Moral Reasoning (C.U.P , 1994), with Diana Lipton, Feminism and Theology, Oxford Readings in Feminism (OUP, 2003) and with Carlo Cogliati, David Burrell and Bill Stoeger, S.J., Creation and the God of Abraham, papers from a conference at the Vatican Observatory on creatio ex nihilo, in science and the three Abrahamic faiths.
